Flag Finials

[-JKP-]

Hi JKP,

Do you by any chance remember where these examples come from?

Ellie, the one on the left I think was from a French Book of Hours, possibly 47941 (I'm going by memory).

The one on the right is from one of the Pal. Germanica chronicles, probably #23.

The ZellamSee portal tower has flag finials, as well, but I haven't had time to look up when it was built. It might not be as old as the others.


Interestingly, Rouen has a tower similar to the Prague Powder tower with balls instead of flags as the finials and Hohenzollern tower is like that, as well, so there might be a cultural reason for using flags rather than balls, just as there was a political reason for Ghibelline merlons. If there is, I haven't discovered it yet.